Elizabeth Chloe Romanis

Assistant Professor in Biolaw, Durham University

Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis is currently a Fellow in Residence at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Harvard University. She is also an Assistant Professor in Biolaw at Durham University . Chloe does research in healthcare law and bioethics with a particular interest in reproduction and the body. Her work is published in leading journals. She passed her Wellcome Trust-funded PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Manchester with no corrections in September 2020. Her thesis was awarded the University of Manchester Distinguished Achievement Medal for Postgraduate Researcher of the Year (FHUMS).

Chloe's first book (co-authored with Mr Jordan Parsons) about Abortion and Telemedicine was published with Oxford University Press in September 2021. Her next book, 'Biotechnology, Gestation and the Law' is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Experience

2022–present

Fellow in Residence, Harvard University
2020–present

Assistant Professor in Biolaw, Durham University

Education

2020

University of Manchester, PhD Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence
2016

University of Manchester, LLM Healthcare Ethics and Law
2015

University of Manchester, LLB (Hons) Law

Publications

2023

On Gestation and Motherhood, Medical Law Review
2023

Abortion Access and the Benefits and Limitations of Abortion-Permissive Legal Frameworks: Lessons from the United Kingdom, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
2023

Safeguarding, Under 18s, & Telemedical Abortion: A Qualitative Study with Care Providers, BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
2023

The end of (reproductive) liberty as we know it: A note on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health 597 USC __ (2022), Medical Law International
2022

Directed and Conditional Uterine Donation, Journal of Medical Ethics
2022

The Excessive Regulation of Early Abortion Medication in the United Kingdom: The Case for Reform, Medical Law Review
2022

Ethical, translational and legal issues surrounding the novel adoption of ectogestative technologies, Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
2022

Assisted Gestative Technologies, Journal of Medical Ethics
2022

The case for telemedical early medical abortion in England: dispelling adult safeguarding concerns, Health Care Analysis
2022

Appropriately Framing Maternal Request Caesarean Section, Journal of Medical Ethics
2022

Artificial Womb Technology, Pregnancy, and EU Employment Rights, Journal of Law and the Biosciences
2021

Surrogacy and Uterus Transplantation using live donors: Examining the options from the perspective of 'womb-givers, Bioethics
2021

Safeguarding and teleconsultation for abortion, Lancet
2021

Abortion & "Artificial Wombs": Would ‘artificial womb’ technology legally empower non-gestating genetic progenitors to participate in decisions about how to terminate a pregnancy?, Journal of Law and the Biosciences
2021

2020 developments in the provision of early medical abortion by telemedicine in the UK, Health Policy
2020

Partial Ectogenesis, Equality, Freedom and Political Perspective, Journal of Medical Ethics
2020

Artificial Womb Technology and Clinical Translation: Innovative Treatment or Medical Research?, Bioethics
2020

Challenging the ‘Born Alive’ Threshold: Foetal Surgery, Artificial Wombs and the English Approach to Legal Personhood, Medical Law Review
2020

Addressing Rising Caesarean Rates: Maternal Request Caesareans, Defensive Practice and the Power of Choice in Childbirth, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
2020

Is ‘Viability’ Viable? Abortion, Conceptual Confusion and the Law in England and Wales and the United States, Journal of Law and the Biosciences
2020

Legal and Policy Responses to the Delivery of Abortion Care During COVID-19, International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
2020

Homebirthing in the United Kingdom during COVID-19, Medical Law International
2020

Maternal Request Caesareans and COVID-19: the virus does not diminish the importance of choice in childbirth, Journal of Medical Ethics
2020

Artificial Wombs and the Ectogenesis Conversation: A Misplaced Focus? Technology, Abortion and Reproductive Freedom, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
2020

Re-Viewing the Womb, Journal of Medical Ethics
2020

COVID-19 and Reproductive Justice in Great Britain and the United States: Ensuring Access to Abortion Care during a Global Pandemic, Journal of Law and the Biosciences
2020

Artificial Womb Technology and the Choice to Gestate Ex Utero: Is Partial Ectogenesis the Business of the Criminal Law?, Medical Law Review
2019

Why the Elective Caesarean Lottery is Ethically Impermissible, Healthcare Analysis
2019

Artificial Womb Technology and the Significance of Birth: Why Gestatelings are not Newborns (or Fetuses), Journal of Medical Ethics
2018

Artificial Womb Technology and the frontiers of human reproduction: conceptual differences and potential implications, Journal of Medical Ethics
2017

Pregnant women may have moral obligations to foetuses they have chosen to carry to term, but the law should never intervene in a woman’s choices during pregnancy, Manchester Review of Law, Crime and Ethics